Language | Ancient South Arabian » Sabaic » Central Middle Sabaic | ||
Alphabet | Ancient South Arabian | ||
Script typology | Monumental writing | ||
Writing technique | Incision | ||
Measure of letters | 2.5 | ||
Chronology |
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Textual typology | Dedicatory text |
English | |
1 [... ...] son of ʾls²rḥ [... ...] 2 dedicated to their solary deity the statue 3 [... ...] spoils which he killed among Ḥ- 4 myrm, Ḥḍrmwt and the beduins 5 in the war which the kings of Sabaʾ waged against those 6 tribes. May He grant him prosperity 7 health of faculties, material resources, numerous 8 spoils, booty, loot; 9 may He save them from harm 10 maleficence, malice of any enemy. |
Support type | Artefact » Base » Of statue with dedicatory inscription |
Material | Stone |
Measures | h. 34.5, w. 22 |
Link to object record |
Modern site | Bayt Dughaysh |
Ancient site | Ḥdqn |
Geographical area | Ṣanʿāʾ |
Country | Yemen |
Found | Reemployed. In modern times |
Link to site record |
Bauer and Lundin 1998: 29-30, photos 120 a, b | Bauer, Gleb M. and Lundin (=Loundine), Avraam G. 1998. Pamjatniki Drevnej Istorii i Kultury. Južnaja Aravija. Part 2: Epigraficheskie pamjiatniki drevnego Jemena. 2. St.-Petersburg: Zentr "Peterburgskoe vostokovedenie". [Akademia nauk, Institut Vostokovedenija, Sankt-Peterburgskiy filial] |